Does anyone know of a write-up on how to set this up? I'd like to do it, but it seems like there are a lot of moving parts.
- Stefan http://www.haystacksoftware.com On Dec 21, 2009, at 10:58 AM, Ryan Britton wrote: > A full merchant account setup is fairly cheap and easy, so I'm not sure why > that hasn't been thrown out there as an option. My rates are 2.2% for > qualified (i.e., AVS matches) Visa/MasterCard transactions, 2.9% unqualified, > and American Express/Discover slightly higher. These are full merchant > accounts tied into the Authorize.net gateway and run $15/mo + $0.20 per > transaction fixed. > > > On Dec 20, 2009, at 8:19 AM, David wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> I can appreciate that the CEO of Fastspring was attentive enough to respond >> directly to emails and web postings, but their rate is extremely high IMO. >> We were paying a net (ie, with fees) 5-6% with a merchant account provider >> that worked out fine (Cardservice International) and was easy to integrate >> into our own shopping cart. But I felt that was too high a rate, and >> switched to the paypal merchant account (which was a tough process to get >> into, compared to the regular paypal payments processing, but worth it). For >> November our total fees from them were under 4% so I'm happy with the move >> as it's saved me several hundred dollars a month. >> >> If you're looking at an alternative to Paypal, I'd do your homework as there >> are many providers around the 4% + fees rates which seems to be a lot >> cheaper than what you're looking into there, and that can add up quick! >> >> --- In [email protected], John Fox <j...@...> wrote: >>> >>> Hello: >>> >>> Just wanted to chime in. Back in 2008, I posted on the list about having my >>> PayPal account frozen because I withdrew ~$10K at one time. This happened >>> the morning of Macworld starting, which was not fun. After getting my >>> account unfrozen, I've not had any problems, but I have been very nervous. >>> >>> This past Thursday, I started looking into FastSpring, and have been blown >>> away by their professionalism and responsiveness. While they do have direct >>> Aquatic Prime support, you can't add custom key/value pairs, which is >>> delaying my using them right away. I have to echo the sentiment that it's >>> worth having multiple payment processor options. I suspect that in the near >>> future FastSpring will be my primary with PayPal as the backup. >> >> > > > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] > > > > ------------------------------------ > > MacSB email guidelines: http://tinyurl.com/2g55d6 > Use MacSB-Talk for off topic messages: > http://groups.google.com/group/macsb-talk > Yahoo! Groups Links > > >
